January 27, 2013

If Being Anti-Israel Isn't Anti-Semitic, It's Mighty Close

[T]he fact is that Israel is not trying to exterminate
the Palestinians – indeed how could this possibly be the case, since the
Palestinian population has more than quadrupled since the rebirth of Israel in
1948. Nor are the Israelis oppressing the Palestinians, who have benefited from
some of the highest rises in GDP and lowest child mortality ratios in the Middle
East.

Nor are the Israelis behaving inhumanely; it is the Palestinians
who are committing crimes against humanity by targeting Israeli innocents for
mass murder without remission, both from Gaza and from the West Bank. It
is the Palestinians, in the West Bank as well as Gaza, who are
brainwashed from the cradle to hate Jews and to believe that murdering Israelis
is their highest glory. Which they have been doing in Israel and before that in
Palestine for more than a century – despite the fact that, as the international
community laid down in binding treaty in 1920, the Jews alone had the inalienable
and historic right to settle throughout Palestine, including not just present-day
Israel but also the West Bank and Gaza.

Moreover, while the Jews accepted proposals for a Palestinian
state first made in the 1930s and then in 1947, and while the Israelis offered them
more than 95 per cent of the possible land for a state in 2000 and 2008, the
Palestinians responded merely by murdering more Jews.

Despite all this, Israel behaves towards its genocidal
Palestinian attackers with a humanity that is seen in no other conflict on the
planet. Despite the rocket attacks and constant smuggling of ever more fearsome
weapons to be aimed at its civilians, it allows humanitarian supplies into
Gaza; despite the constant plotting in the West Bank to kill more Israelis, it allows
Palestinians to work in Israel, and treats Palestinians from both the West Bank
and Gaza alongside Israelis in Israeli hospitals. Yes of course there is
Palestinian hardship caused by the checkpoints and security barrier. But the
only reason these exist is to prevent Palestinians killing yet more Israelis.
If the Palestinians and their Arab and Iranian backers stopped trying to wipe
Israel off the map, there would be peace tomorrow.

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[T]he fact is that Israel is not trying to exterminate
the Palestinians – indeed how could this possibly be the case, since the
Palestinian population has more than quadrupled since the rebirth of Israel in
1948. Nor are the Israelis oppressing the Palestinians, who have benefited from
some of the highest rises in GDP and lowest child mortality ratios in the Middle
East.

Nor are the Israelis behaving inhumanely; it is the Palestinians
who are committing crimes against humanity by targeting Israeli innocents for
mass murder without remission, both from Gaza and from the West Bank. It
is the Palestinians, in the West Bank as well as Gaza, who are
brainwashed from the cradle to hate Jews and to believe that murdering Israelis
is their highest glory. Which they have been doing in Israel and before that in
Palestine for more than a century – despite the fact that, as the international
community laid down in binding treaty in 1920, the Jews alone had the inalienable
and historic right to settle throughout Palestine, including not just present-day
Israel but also the West Bank and Gaza.

Moreover, while the Jews accepted proposals for a Palestinian
state first made in the 1930s and then in 1947, and while the Israelis offered them
more than 95 per cent of the possible land for a state in 2000 and 2008, the
Palestinians responded merely by murdering more Jews.

Despite all this, Israel behaves towards its genocidal
Palestinian attackers with a humanity that is seen in no other conflict on the
planet. Despite the rocket attacks and constant smuggling of ever more fearsome
weapons to be aimed at its civilians, it allows humanitarian supplies into
Gaza; despite the constant plotting in the West Bank to kill more Israelis, it allows
Palestinians to work in Israel, and treats Palestinians from both the West Bank
and Gaza alongside Israelis in Israeli hospitals. Yes of course there is
Palestinian hardship caused by the checkpoints and security barrier. But the
only reason these exist is to prevent Palestinians killing yet more Israelis.
If the Palestinians and their Arab and Iranian backers stopped trying to wipe
Israel off the map, there would be peace tomorrow.